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Date: April 25, 2025 Labour market participation: gender gap remains
Despite the gap narrowing, women are still less frequently in employment than men. Globally, in 2024, 46% of women were in employment compared to 70% of men. In the G7 countries the difference between the sexes is smaller.
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Date: April 24, 2025 Information on the measures of the German government and their impact on consumer price indices
The development of consumer prices, especially regarding energy prices (household energy and fuel), placed a particular burden on private households in 2022, but also posed and will continue to pose a challenge for many people in subsequent years. …
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Date: April 17, 2025 The main German export product: motor vehicles
Accounting for 17.0% of exports, motor vehicles and parts thereof were Germany's main export product in 2024. Machinery (14.0%) and chemical products (9.0%) ranked second and third, respectively, among the most important export items.
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Date: April 16, 2025 WISTA edition 2/2025
WISTA is a scientific journal regularly published by the Federal Statistical Office Germany. It offers articles on topics relating to official statistics.
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Date: April 15, 2025 Amount of damaged timber logged dropped to 27.3 million cubic metres in 2024
A total of 61.2 million cubic metres of timber were logged in German forests in the calendar year of 2024. Damaged trees accounted for 27.3 million cubic metres.
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Date: April 14, 2025 Bee colonies: worldwide population on the rise
Bees not only provide honey but are also irreplaceable as pollinators of many plants in agriculture, fruit growing and horticulture. The worldwide population is on the rise.
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Date: April 9, 2025 The largest cities worldwide in 2025
According to the United Nations, the urban population is set to increase by almost 800 million by the year 2035, reaching a total of 5.6 billion. In 2025 approximately 4.8 billion of the more than 8 billion people worldwide lived in towns or cities. …
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Date: April 1, 2025 Long-term comparison: global number of new HIV infections is decreasing by 39%
From 2010 to 2023, the annual number of new HIV infections has decreased by 39%. Approximately 1.3 million adults and children were newly infected in 2023, compared to about 2.1 million in 2010.
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Date: April 1, 2025 Literacy of the world population
The worldwide illiteracy rate amounted to 13% in 2023. The data points to a significant gender gap: the illiteracy rate among women was significantly higher than among men.
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Date: March 28, 2025 733 million people were undernourished in 2023
According to estimates from the FAO, the number of undernourished people in the world reached a total of 733 million in 2023.